Physical oceanography

Physical oceanography

The scientific study of the physical conditions and processes related to the motions and physical properties of ocean currents and waters.

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Proxy data

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Paleoclimate data inferred indirectly via the use of transfer functions. The underlying idea is that organisms exhibit a high degree of differentiation according to their physical environment, and ...

Climate Expert System for the North Atlantic (CESNA)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Part of a project to develop a practical system that can manipulate qualitative information in a way that facilitates insights into observed and anticipated climate changes. At present CESNA can be ...

Wave forecasting

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Predicting the development and characteristics of ocean surface gravity waves via semiempirical methods. These methods use some theory in their foundation but require basic data for the evaluation of ...

Psychrosphere

Earth science; Physical oceanography

One of two regions into which the ocean depths are sometimes divided according to temperature, the other being the thermosphere. The psychrosphere is those ocean depths where the temperature is less ...

National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML)

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Organised in the late 1980s and representing marine and Great Lakes laboratories. It is composed of three regional associations: Northeastern Association of Marine and Great Lakes Laboratories ...

Pteropod ooze

Earth science; Physical oceanography

Ooze composed of the shells of small, planktonic swimming molluscs with a calcareous shell that live in tropical and subtropical waters. These are coarser than globigerina oozes, are found between ...